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NUS’s first FE president Toni Pearce wins second term

Toni Pearce, the first president of the National Union 0f Students (NUS) from a further education background, has been…

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FE Week Reporter
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Exclusive: Agency clears Elmfield Training of falsely claiming for learners on Morrisons apprentice scheme in a two page report following a six month investigation

A Skills Funding Agency (SFA) investigation has ruled that defunct training provider Elmfield did not receive funding it was…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Toni Fazaeli announces retirement from IfL chief role

Institute for Learning (IfL) chief executive Toni Fazaeli has announced plans for her retirement after six years in the…

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FE Week Reporter
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New £2.9m research centre for adult literacy and numeracy

The government is investing £2.9m in a new research centre that will focus on improving adult literacy and numeracy….

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Tributes paid to ‘FE warrior’ Mary Rimington MBE

Tributes have been paid to the former deputy principal of City and Islington College after she died from cancer….

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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‘Students mean income for schools’ – AoC warning as report criticises career advice

Schools should think of the good of their students over the income benefits of keeping learners on after 16,…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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Company fined after apprentice’s hand crushed

A company has been fined after an apprentice’s hand was crushed in machinery. The young man, who was 18…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Exeter principal Richard Atkins to be new AoC president

Exeter College principal Richard Atkins has been unveiled as the next president of the Association of College (AoC) after…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Universities Minister wants more higher education courses at colleges

Universities Minister David Willetts wants FE colleges to offer more higher education courses. He has given the Higher Education…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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College staff and students lobby Parliament over FE funding cuts

College staff were joined by students as they conducted a mass lobby of Parliament over the future of FE…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Pilot scheme for FE English GCSE teaching enhancement course to start in mid-April

A pilot scheme will soon be launched for a training course preparing FE lecturers for a massive expansion in…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Former deputy Lorna Fitzjohn to replace Coffey in Ofsted FE lead role

Ofsted’s former deputy director of further education and skills has been given the director’s role after Matthew Coffey was…

FE Week Reporter
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Case dismissed: Marples loses High Court claim against DfE

A judge has dismissed a multi-million-pound claim brought by former training boss Peter Marples and his family against the…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Skills reform

New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms

The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
Qualifications

Revealed: V Levels incoming as axe looms for BTECs

New qualifications set to launch as ‘third route’ between A-levels and T Levels

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Politics, Skills reform

DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms

Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, Long read

Colleges on the frontline of a divided nation

As social media algorithms fuel intolerance and binary thinking, college staff increasingly find themselves dealing with the fallout. Jessica…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Colleges, Long read

Alun Francis, chair of the Social Mobility Commission

Deprived areas need vision – not victimhood – to level up, and Social Mobility Commission chair Alun Francis is…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill